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‘It’s like out of a dystopian movie’: Inside an emotional city raid on a Brooklyn homeless encampment

By Dean Moses

Posted on March 29, 2022

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Parker Wolf’s days of living under the rumbling traffic of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Williamsburg came to an abrupt end Monday, when city officials broke up the outdoor homeless encampment where he had stayed.

Members of the NYPD and the Sanitation Department came on March 28 with a warning to Wolf and others living in the illegal, open-air dwelling: Take what you could, but the rest of their belongings was heading for the nearest garbage truck.

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‘It’s like out of a dystopian movie’: Inside an emotional city raid on a Brooklyn homeless encampment

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